STRUGGLE IN SIBERIA.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14625, 1 February 1918, Page 5

STRUGGLE IN SIBERIA.

PITCHED BATTLE AT TOMSK

MENACE OF LIBERATED

PRISONERS,

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)

New York, Jan. 30,

Tie "Chicago Daily News' " correspondent at Harbin says the preliminary session of the Constituent Assembly was held at Tomsk to discuss Siberia's autonomy. It resulted in a pitched battle between the Bolsheviki and other elements. Twenty were killed.

Eastern Siberia is menaced by AustroGerman prisoners, of whom there are 15,000 in Amur Province alone. Prisoners at Tomsk, Omsk, and Irkutsk enjoy liberty, and may assist an uprising against the Bolsheviki.